Suica Penguin Rockin' The Shin-Kan-Sen!

Thankfully JR (Japan Railways) have brought everyone's favourite Suica Penguin back for an encore. 

 This time it's to say that we can use Suica mobile on the bullet Shinkansen trains as well.

   

At least it gives me something else to watch other than the sweet looking "Cook One" girl ad (one of the staff members bears a passing resemblance), and the hypnotising "trainglish" tutorials from a rival school. 

 You know the one. Cheers.

Suica Penguin Rocks Out!

 This is the latest JR advertising with everyone's favourite (especially the gf), Suica Penguin. 

 Here you can see him rocking out on a mobile phone "guitar". 

 Basically the ad is saying how your mobile phone can act the same as the Suica train card. Practically a cell phone credit card. Not only for the trains, but also you can use it also to pay for purchases elsewhere like restaurants, combini etc. Pretty cool huh? 

 Now if only I can find a way to get hold of one of those inflatable Suica Penguins outside many restaurants. Hmm. If anyone has a spare one lying around, I'd be happy to take it off your hands.

  The japanese here means "Moshi Moshi". It's what japanese people say when they answer the phone.

  A few choice rock poses!

 

Night Of The Christmas Suica Penguins

As usual I didn't feel like going out and surfed the net most of the day.

 Luckily gf had the day off, so later we went to eat quiche at Pauls, and then went to the Yotsuya Library. 

 I picked up John Mayer's "Continuum", an Eric Clapton and Billy Joel hits CDs, a Blue Note jazz compilation and er.. Black Eyed Peas "Monkey Business". I also got a Japanese Grammar book. I may even have a read of it sometime. 

 From there we walked into Shinjuku on the hunt for penguins, Suica Penguins that is. Gf wanted to show me a Penguin Christmas display outside the JR offices next to Krispy Kreme. Here they are..

  Here's a new Suica Penguin mobile billboard outside the South Entrance to Shinjuku Station.

  We proceeded from there to the yakiniku, korean BBQ for an "All You Can Eat". Normally it's listed as 2200 yen per person for 90 minutes but I had a 500 yen discount coupon that was due today. It was for the Yokohama one, but luckily they accepted it here in Shinjuku. 

 We ate SO much in that time and definitely got our money's worth. I was full, but not sick full like after eating at the pizza place. Not a wasted day after all.